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This is horrible. I'm a 26 year old male with chicken pox from head to toe. It's even inside my mouth and on my special place. Good thing I ordered ICO last Friday as it should be here soon and I'm going stir crazy! What's even worse is that I'm going to miss all week at work. How the fuck am I supposed to pay the bills? To the parents here, for the love of God expose your children to chicken pox while at a young age!
They have vaccines now.
That often doesn't work. The 3 year old I caught it from had the vaccine. In most cases you experience a mild breakout, but you can still catch it very easily.
Well a vaccine is just a mild form of the illness by definition. A few times I got flu-like symptons from taking the flu shot.
It just means its working.
Better to be vaccinated than catch it really late, like you have. Any sort of chance on passing it if worth the effort.
I was lucky enough to have it very young, so I don't even remember it. Probably the only good my brother has ever done for me, exposing me to it. It sounds terribly uncomfortable.
Ouch, all Varicella vaccines i've looked up in my MIMS are live altered strains of the virus. Usually vaccines are "dead" viruses or just their protein coat... no wonder it sucks.
I had it when I was little, I heard it's pretty bad for adults so hope you get over it pretty quick Bishop.
Yeah, I had it when I was little too, but I still have a huge scar from a giant one that was on my tricep.
All I can remember is calamine lotion baths and scratching like a bitch.
Aren't adults supposed to get Shingles if they don't get Chicken Pox when they're young?
No, shingles is an outbreak of the chicken pox virus when you're an adult (it never goes away, the virus is dormant in your nervous system now).
All of us who have had chicken pox in the past could get shingles in our life.